Trademark

You probably know that trademarks can be words, stylized text, and pictures: like brand names, slogans, and logos. But you may not know that you can have shape trademarks trademarks could be just [...]

The US government IP Offices are responding to the coronavirus outbreak by adjusting rules and requirements to allow for increased safety of applicants and users, and of the examining attorneys [...]

Most trademarks are for words or images, used as brand names, company names, slogans, or logos, as discussed in several of my posts on trademarks.  A trademark can be just about anything [...]

Groundhog Day is a tradition celebrated mostly in the US and Canada, yearly on Feb. 2nd, in which if a groundhog sees its shadow, winter will persist, and if the groundhog doesn’t, then [...]

You have a registered trademark – well done.  But your work isn’t over.  Now, you have to do several things to keep your trademark registration alive, and you must avoid a few other [...]

After filing a patent application, you will often receive patent scams: letters demanding payment.  The same thing happens after you file a trademark registration application.  These letters look [...]

In the U.S., trademark rights are built through use, not by registration.  If you don’t register your mark, you will have common law trademark rights.  So why go through the time and [...]

When planning to register a trademark, you must choose which trademark classes to use for your goods and/or services. If you have questions about what trademark classes you should be considering, [...]

You can register a trademark on a geographical location.  And there can be good reasons for choosing a place name as part of your trademark: it may suggest a quality associated with that place, [...]